Previously, we have heard a CEO who rejects the job candidates who say they can start right away and the sly salt and pepper test that afflict the interviews for lunch.
Now there is a coffee cup test to add to the list of hoops of job seekers they need to get a job on the difficult market today.
The trick was described by an Australian boss, Trent Innes, who is the former director general of the Xeno accounting platform, and now works as growth director at SiteMinder.
Speaking on the Podcast Business “The Ventures”, Innes said that it always takes potential employees for a walk to the kitchen for a drink – and although it calls it a coffee cup test, it is not whether you take your caffeine hit in black or with sugar. You can even give up coffee for water or tea while taking the test.
This is what you do with your cup later that it keeps an eye.
“Then we resume this, have our interview, and one of the things I am still looking for at the end of the interview is: the person who makes the interview wants to bring this empty cup to the kitchen?” Innes said.
Unfortunately, those who have the right skills for work but leave their dirty cup on the premises of the interview will probably not hear the recruitment manager. Innes thinks it is a red flag that they are not the right culture suitable for the company.
“You can develop skills, you can acquire knowledge and experience, but it really comes down to attitude, and the attitude we are talking about a lot is the concept of” washing your coffee cup “”, added the boss.
Bring back your cup, the used cup or glass to the kitchen of the protruding facts that you are a team player, your attention and you care about little things.
This is not what you know, or even who you know – CEOs without accounting have stressed that success depends on attitude. Like Innes, Andy Jassy said that “embarrassing quantity of the way you do, especially in their twenties” depended on it.
“I think people would be surprised to see how much people have great attitudes,” Amazon CEO revealed. “I think that makes a big difference.”
Likewise, the CEOs of Pret and Kurt Geiger both stressed that being kind to their boss and their colleagues was one of the greatest determining factors of their success.
“You cannot teach positive attitudes, engagement and energy,” recently echoed the British CEO of Cisco Fortune.
It is trait n ° 1 with green flag that she keeps an eye on hiring or research to promote from the inside – and she said that it prevails over what is on your CV, especially at the start of your career.
“It is more of the person above all than before skills or experience,” she added.
If you want to test the attitude rather than the skills, you would be happy to learn that the coffee cup test really works.
Lewis Maleh, CEO of the World Executive Recruitment Agency Bentley Lewis, says that he is one of the many subtle tests he saw during his 20 years of recruitment experience – “And I think there is real value.”
“I have found that these small behavioral observations can tell you as much about a person that you never attract in an official question and answer session,” he said, adding that employers could also monitor how those interviewed treat reception staff for similar information.
“A large part of hiring is a question of culture and adjustment and I think it is an important element to assess if someone would suit your organization.”
But he would not write whole job decisions on such tests.
“I see it more as a single room,” he adds. “Go ahead, but keep it in perspective. All the big candidates will not think of erasing their cup, especially if they are nervous or unknown with your office. Some could even come from work cultures where it was not expected.”
After proposing to help an assistant cleaning the coffee cups that people had left for a previous meeting, Saira Demmer says that she won a role in the recruitment of SF. During the four years that followed, she was promoted CEO.
“It was between me and another candidate,” recalls Demmer. “I insisted to help, and she returned the 2 billion to make the decision that she strongly felt that I was better suited to this reason.”
“I do not personally put people through this test, but I think it is a good because it is a real test of the equation, teamwork and understanding of the environment around you,” she adds.
“These skills are essential to success and a very good guide as to the probability that someone has a positive impact on others.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
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